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Three hundred workers at Fujitsu, the technology giant, in Manchester are staging a 72 hour strike this weekend.
It's in a long running dispute over pay pensions and jobs security.
It follows a breakdown in talks between their union Unite at the conciliation service ACAS.
Members will be holding rallies and leaflet handouts in Manchester city centre along with picketing the plant at Northampton Road.

A drone was flown at "exactly the level of the flight deck window" of a Boeing 767 aircraft approaching Manchester Airport.
The sharp-edged bright yellow drone with a width of 60cm was said to have been so close it must have passed over the right wing in the incident in July.
The details are contained in a report by the UK Airprox Board (UKAB).

Pilots want more regulation of drones Credit: PA Images

It was one of three near misses involving drones in the report, all were assessed as having the most serious degree of risk. None of the operators were found.
Pilots' union Balpa has called for better education for drone users and compulsory registration of the devices.
They want tests to be carried out to discover what would happen if a drone hit a passenger jet, amid fears it could result in an uncontrolled engine failure or a smashed cockpit windscreen.

"Flying a drone in an irresponsible manner puts lives in danger and any offending drone should transmit enough data to allow the police to locate the operator.

"If they have endangered an aircraft we would like to see the culprit prosecuted."

A special tribute has been paid to a woman who died 70 years ago but whose legacy remains with us.

Eleanor Rathbone was a tireless campaigner for refugees and underprivileged people. She was also credited with getting the law passed which entitled all mothers in society to a universal benefit called Family Allowance.

She was also the first woman to sit on Liverpool city council. And it was in Liverpool that she was remembered today - Tim Scott was there:

We meet the amazing couple who've opened their home and their hearts to an incredible two hundred and forty one foster children.

George and Joycelyne Hindle are both in their seventies and began fostering in 1979.

The couple had two children of their own, adopted five more, then spent decades looking after youngsters from newborns to teenagers. They told our correspondent Elaine Willcox they never meant to look after so many, but just couldn't turn anyone away.

More than 100 firefighters were brought in to put out the fire which started early on Wednesday morning in Altham near Accrington. It caused traffic chaos as smoke billowed across the M65 motorway. Nobody was injured. The joint investigation between the fire service and the police is ongoing.

It's the children's classic where the car is the star. Of course it's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and a new production of the famous story is now showing just over the water here at the Lowry theatre.

And for a couple of local stars at least it means they don't have to be away from family and friends over Christmas - Sarah Rogers went to meet comedian Jason Manford and actress Claire Sweeney - plus lodger Phill Jupitas: